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650: Relation d'un voyage à Manitoba, accompagnée d'une analyse de l'Acte concernant les terres de la Puissance, et d'un extrait du pamphlet publié par le gouvernement at [sic] sujet de Manitoba . 1873.
Shantz, Jacob Yost (1822-1909.)
1822-1909. Resident of New Berlin, Ontario; sent to Manitoba by Mennonites in Russia to report on lands, 1872; favourable report led to the founding of the first Mennonite settlements in the West; interested himself in the welfare of these immigrants, and made a total of thirty trips to Manitoba, usually on business connected with the settlers.